Tag: Blackwater
Blackwater founder Erik Prince recruited spies to infiltrate progressive groups with...
The story exposes previously unreported details about the ties between Prince and Project Veritas, a right-wing group that often sets up sting operations targeting the media and journalists by recording covert videos.
Ex-Blackwater CEO Erik Prince makes a comeback under Trump selling mercenary...
House Democrats are accusing Prince of lying to Congress during his November 2017 testimony before the Committee, when he described a meeting in the Seychelles with a Russian banker before Donald Trump’s inauguration as a chance encounter.
Blackwater founder admits to secret Trump meeting and possibly lied to...
“Sure looks like Erik Prince committed perjury.”
Blackwater announces return as former mercenary found guilty of murder
Blackwater announced their return in a full-page ad in the January/February print issue of the gun and hunting magazine “Recoil.”
Blackwater and the Corporate Mercenaries who’ve changed the rules of war
No matter what they call themselves, they are soldiers of fortune and now quietly operate around the world.
Prince of darkness: Blackwater’s founder promotes a dangerous solution to America’s...
“I grew up around the auto industry. Customers would say to my dad, ‘We have this need.’ He would then use his own money to create prototypes to fulfill those needs. He took the ‘If you build it they will come’ approach.” —Erik Prince
Court overturns murder conviction and prison sentences for Blackwater killers
“Their poor judgments resulted in the deaths of many innocent people.”
Four Blackwater Operatives Sentenced to Prison for Committing Iraqi Massacre
“In killing and maiming unarmed civilians, these defendants acted unreasonably and without justification.” Blackwater contractors were sentenced yesterday for killing 14 unarmed Iraqi civilians and wounding 18 more in the 2007 Nisour Square massacre.
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The CIA’s illegal plots against Wikileaks and Julian Assange
There should be more sympathy for Assange and the outlet he founded in corporate media.
The real reason the economy might collapse
Closing our staggering wealth gap is crucial to the survival of both our economy and our democracy.
Black children were jailed for a crime that doesn’t exist. Almost nothing happened to...
Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.
Discontent by design: The lost world of The West
The Culture of Pleasure sits tightly within and feeds the pervasive Ideology of Consumerism, a socio-economic model that has poisoned the environment and led to the commodification of everything, and everyone.
Wells Fargo announces commitment to join Net-Zero Banking Alliance and reach net-zero emissions by...
"Achieving net-zero emissions by 2050 means stopping financing for the expansion of fossil fuels now."